Professor Stephanie Shaw completed her undergraduate education at North
Carolina Central University in 1977, and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Ohio
State University in 1979 and 1986, respectively. She joined the OSU faculty in 1988 in History and Women's Studies. She has also held a joint appointment in the Department of African and African American Studies.
Professor Shaw's teaching and research interests focus on the history
of African-Americans, especially African-American women. Her first major
work, a book entitled What a Woman ought To Be and To Do: Black Professional
Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era (Chicago and London: The University
of Chicago Press, 1996), concerns the family, work, and community lives of black women who grew up and worked during the Jim Crow Era. The book won the 1996 Association of Black Women
Historians' Letitia Woods Brown prize for the best book in African-
American history and was selected as an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus
Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America. Her article, "Using the W.P.A. Ex-Slave Narratives to Study the Great Depression" (Journal of Southern History, 2003), was awarded the Southern Historical Association's Green-Ramsdell Award for Best Article in the Journal of Southern History during 2002 and 2003. She is currently in the final stages of completing a book entitled Soul, Striving, Spirit, and Science: W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk. She is also finishing a book on female slaves in the nineteenth-century South, tentatively titled, Slave Generations, Migration, and the Antebellum Eras.
Professor Shaw has held fellowships at the Carter G. Woodson Institute (University of Virginia), Rice University (Mellon Professorship), The National Humanities Center, and The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She was also selected for the Fulbright Foundation's Nickolay Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History (2007), which she declined. She is a 2008-09 Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.
She has served the professional associations widely, and is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Southern History,the 2007 Merle Curti Award Committee of the Organization of American Historians and the 2008 Frederick Jackson Turner Award Committee. She was appointed to the American Historical Association Wesley Logan Prize Committee for 2008-10, and will chair the Committee for 2009.
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